Scientists Quotes

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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do… — Richard Hamming
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological… — Lynn Margulis
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply… — Richard Dawkins
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal… — Stephen Jay Gould
Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world. — Barbara Fredrickson
Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and… — Prince Charles
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the… — Wilson Greatbatch
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called… — Justus von Liebig
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little… — Michael Kinsley
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for… — Hannes Alfven
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines… — Hannes Alfven
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. — Theodore von Karman
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides… — Stanford Moore
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at… — Torbern Bergman
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. — Elvin C. Stakman
Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other. — Kenneth Stafford Norris
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. — Percy Williams Bridgman
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. — Cyril Ponnamperuma
Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they… — Frank Press

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